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Property taxes have already increased by 21% in five years according to the National Union of real estate. -AFP

They arrived in mailboxes mailbox during the holidays of all saints: the notices of assessment for property taxes. They have already increased by 21% in five years according to the National Union of real estate ...According to her represents the land tax now two months of rent. And it is not complete. 2014 tax books an unpleasant surprise for the owners of land. Faced with deficits plots, denounced by the promoters and builders, the Finance Act 2013 scheduled a gross up required by the rental value of the land plots in areas strained. This applies to 28 cities and 1,168 municipalities in France (the same as those for the vacant housing tax). And the measure is already a number of members, but also of many farmers.

This increase should have a significant impact on the real estate tax on properties not built. The law provides for an increase of 25% of the cadastral rental value for the country to add a default value of 5 euros per m2 in 2014 and 2015, then increased by 10 euros in 2016. It is on this basis that the property tax is calculated. The goal is to make the retention for speculative purposes of these areas in the tense area. "For example, on the commune of Netherlands (59), an acre of this land for agricultural use classified into Constructible area, the property tax will amount to € 13 € 26 990 510 in 2014 and 2016 instead of currently € 24", has smothered this summer the rural coordination.

A few months of municipal, voices are treated to denounce this increase. Bernard Accoyer has just to write to Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to rail against a rise "which is set to exceed the threshold confiscatory and random character in a context where social and fiscal charges reached an unbearable level". His colleague Lionel Tardy, another Member of Haute-Savoie, went to "a new tax blow indiscriminately imposed by the Government. (…) No policy of housing and urbanism justifies such excessive overcharging the owners of land. The at risk, on the one hand, farmers who will be asked to sell their land to pay the amounts instead of disproportionate, and on the other hand, the budget of the municipalities concerned». He wants to submit a draft amendment to allow the Bill to exempt the Commons fiscal 2014 or set free this increase.

This fee only applies to the country and not the country that is already connected to running water and electricity.